ximian connector GAL help

fergus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 99

I am trying to get the new GPL'd ximian connector working and have run into a snag. I can't seem to get the Global Address List to work.

Let me first explain what I know of our setup and what I have tried. When I setup the exchange account in evolution it askes for the exchange server and it also has an option Global Catalog Server for specifiying where to find the global address list. If I make this the same as the exchange server I get an error when trying to access the list. If I point this to what I think is the ACtive Directory server, I no longer get an error when access the GAL but i don't get any addresses either.

I then wen't back to outlook to see if I could find out where it got the GAL from. From the information I found it says the GAL is located on the exchange server at \Global Address List.

I am not sure what to do now. Any thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Anything would be helpful! Thanks

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Kryptik · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 54 Location: 33

a starting point to solve your problem may be this:

Ximian Support Page - "How do I figure out what my GAL (global address list) server is?"

Kryptik
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fergus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 99

I tried that and it didn't work. All it said was host not found. I am not sure if that just means we have a different configuration or if I am screwed. I did make a little more progress. I found out the active directory server and was able to get it configured by adding the server to the Directory Server settings. I then tried to point the GAL option in the email settings to the same server but still no luck. When I click on the GAL it still says can't contact LDAP server. Right now i am just scratching my head...

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rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

What's more, I have been using connector for years and have been successfully using the GAL too. It's not until 1.4.7 (the Free version) that I have lost access to my GAL.

What's strange is I also used to be able to issue a

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Here's the proper question:

Has anyone been able to successfully use the newly "Free" Ximian Connector to work with their Exchange server's Global Address List?

We're talking evolution-1.4.6 with ximian-connector-1.4.7.1

jmd · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 30

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

JMD - how about a link or links to what it is you are talking about... the patch and the threads to which you refer.

jmd · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 30

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Thanks for the links.

When I built 1.4.7.1, I didn't know to use the patch you describe. However, I have never received the error you describe either.

When I try a GAL lookup, I merely get a "Can't contact LDAP server (...)" message in the status bar.

Still curious if anyone has this working?

jmd · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 30

Yes, I just got it working :-)

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I used openldap 2.1.30 (the latest ~x86 in the portage tree), and compiled it with "USE=sasl" and the NTLM patch. Then I compiled the connector again, and it all worked (knowing which servers to use and having the VPN sorted out helped as well).

Try running the ximian-connector-setup, and check which LDAP error you get (you can ignore the two XML error messages it produces).

Now just to get my local calendar to sync with my exchange one... (or be able to use multisync with the exchange calendar) and I'll be very happy.

trumee · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 551 Location: London,UK

Can you please lay out the steps in patching openldap?

Thanks

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Here's what I did (mad, mad props to jmd above)

1. Add "sasl" to your make.conf USE directive.

2. Build cyrus-sasl... I had trouble with the current version in portage, but https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=160778&highlight=devlibs+cyrussasl2+1+14 instructed me to build the bleeding edge version cyrus-sasl-2.1.18:

jmd · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 30

props to rburcham for his description. Which email list do you mean btw?
I'd like to use multisync with the IrMC plugin (to keep my calendar on my mobile phone).

I'm a bit more lazy, so here's what I did (it amounts to the same):

1. Copy everything in the /usr/portage/net-nds/openldap tree to /usr/local/portage/net-nds/openldap (or wherever your portage overlay is, make sure it's defined in your make.conf).

2. Remove the Changelog, Manifest and metadata.xml from the overlay dir.

3. Copy the openldap-ntlm.diff file to the files directory in the overlay dir.

4. Replace openldap-2.1.30.ebuild by the one on my webpage (Basically unchanged, except I added the NTLM patch to it).

5. Run

Tuti · n00b Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 33

works like a charm!
thanks!

kpoman · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject:

hi
i'm not an expert at all on this !
i did what u said on the post, patching openldap etc... and now I try to set up my evolution client to use an exchange server but get "Could not connect to server COMPAY: SSL handshake failed"
i dont know wht's going on there ?
i dont know well what to put on all server configuration through evolution ?
i also dont know what means OWA path and how do i know what it should be... also about "mailbox name", i put my username or what ? finally public folder name etc...
the only thing i know is my username is "stegmanp", the exchange server, as set up on outlook clients, is "compay"

i would really appreciate if someone could point me to what can be wrong now ?

thanks a lot!
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jmd · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 30

kpoman · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject:

great!
now ximian-connector-setup is working (i had some libkrb issues before)

i am trying to enter the OWA url ... the only thing i know is that when i do:

http://webmail.my-company.com

it asks for my login / password (those i use on the win2k network) and it then redirects to:

http://webmail.my-company.com/exchange/

so i entered that address, but it tells me it cant find out the GC server (global catalog so i am kind of stuck !
could you please tell me if the OWA is that thing i entered there (
http://webmail.my-company.com/exchange/ ) or where i can find out this information n the 2000 server ?

thank you for this !
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kpoman · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject:

oops!!!
well i got it working !!!
the url wasn't working because it was a public one... but using the internal one (from my works lan / intranet) it did work and now i am connected with evolution to my exchange stuff!!!!! great !!!!!

thanks for the tutorial it did perfectly work !
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kpoman · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:50 pm Post subject:

Hi,
well i am able to read and send my emails, and have the contact list and all this !
i even get the public folders (where u can add tasklists and all that) . evolution allows me to change the task status, for example ... but when saving this, it doesn't really save the update, and doesn't complain about nothing ! so i wonder if it is possible or it is readonly ?
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chiledog · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 4 Location: France

No probs at all for me, using the ebuild from bugs.gentoo.org.
Spent ages try to setup account manually, just wouldn't work.
When i used the ximian-connector-setup, i had to put DOMAIN\User, then it found my GAL server.
Only thing a bit wierd is it doesn't list the Contacts until i click on find (without entering any wildcards).
I didn't install any of the patches mentioned above but i have openldap installed.
dunno if thats worth 2 cents or not.

JaquesStrap · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 47

I am having issues trying to compile connector. I have the following Evolution installed:

jmd · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 30

JaquesStrap - try upgrading to Evo 1.4.6. From what I read, you still have 1.2.4 installed.

Did you get the connector ebuild from bugs.gentoo.org?

kpoman · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

JaquesStrap · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 47

JaquesStrap · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 47

Well, that worked. Only now I find out our Exchange server is the wrong version. :evil: